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Main Quest · Die Rise

High Maintenance

Die Rise’s main quest lights the second of the story’s three towers, and the Tower of Babble choice carries straight over: serve Maxis or Richtofen, four players either way, on Original difficulty. Shared steps run from golden rings atop moving elevators to sniper shots into the roof dragons’ mouths; the sides then diverge — a Sliquifier blood-rite and zombie-flinging Trample Steams for Richtofen, the Buddha room and a resurrecting Ballistic Knife for Maxis — before both finish reading Mahjong tiles and striking the tower’s posts with Galvaknuckles.

Difficulty: ExpertSpoilers: medium
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Preparation

Before you start

Prerequisites

  • • Four players, Original difficulty
  • • The NAV table built on the roof
  • • Galvaknuckles for every player at the finale
  • • Richtofen: the Sliquifier and Trample Steams; Maxis: a Pack-a-Punched Ballistic Knife

Walkthrough

Step by step

  1. 01

    Rings, symbols, dragons

    All four players stand on the golden rings atop four elevators at once, light the four floor symbols in the game’s randomised order, then snipe the balls out of both roof dragons’ mouths.

  2. 02

    Richtofen: the blood sacrifice

    Spin both teleported balls beneath the lion statues with twenty Sliquifier hits apiece — this commits the game to Richtofen.

  3. 03

    Richtofen: fling the dead

    Each player places a Trample Steam on a golden zombie symbol facing the radio tower and feeds it zombies.

  4. 04

    Maxis: the Buddha room

    Leave the balls unspun, kill fifteen consecutive zombies inside the Buddha room, then fire the Krauss Refibrillator — a Pack-a-Punched Ballistic Knife — from hands that have never bought a knife upgrade or bled out.

  5. 05

    Maxis: set the spheres bouncing

    Place Trample Steams on the four lion symbols and keep the balls bouncing between them until an orange surge climbs the tower.

  6. 06

    Read the tiles, strike the tower

    Find the map’s eight Mahjong tiles to learn the per-game order, then melee the radio tower’s four corner posts with Galvaknuckles in that order — the tower lights blue for Richtofen, orange for Maxis.

Following along in-game? Switch to Guided Mode for one step at a time on a screen you can read at arm's length.

References

  1. 1.Die Rise — Call of Duty Wiki — Call of Duty Wiki (Fandom). callofduty.fandom.com · accessed Jul 22, 2026Community-verifiedcorroborate

Last reviewed Jul 15, 2026. Spotted an error? Suggest a correction.